Laurel Canyon

By the late 1960s, Laurel Canyon had become a neighborhood built out of open doors and borrowed guitars — the place where a generation of singer-songwriters lived within walking distance of each other, and where a lot of the music that later defined the decade got written on somebody else's couch.

The Canyon Country Store, still standing at the bottom of the hill, was the closest thing the neighborhood had to a town square. It's one of the real places Beka finds her way into, in the novel's 1960s timeline — a world of open houses and beautiful words, and a price for both that isn't obvious yet.